Steve Wozniak

On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step.

"We've made very tiny strides so far in the area of artificial intelligence and yet that really is where the future is," he told the QUT Business Leaders' Forum.

But he said AI wasn't too far off.

"In 40 years we will have computers that are conscious, that have feelings, that have a personality," Mr Wozniak said.

"A computer is going to be your best friend. You'll talk to it. It's going to look at your face and know your expression. It's going to know your heart and soul better than anything in the world.

"A few of us might be replaced by machines and we might have to restructure society.

"So is my iPhone someday. It's going to know me so good I won't want you humans.

"There's so much innovation and thinking of new better ways to do things that every company really has to watch out and move very early if they see something that might totally change people's values."

The man who designed the first personal computers in the world fell in love with computer programming language at first sight, and decided he would be an engineer for life.

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Wozniak hungry for AI era